1942 result(s)
Schlachtfeld
Sword war der Deckname für den am weitesten östlich gelegenen der fünf Landungsstrände in der Normandie. Verstärkt durch...
Wahrzeichen
While preparing for Operation Overlord, the Allied strategists decided to build two artificial, pre-fabricated ports in ...
Museum
Als General Leclerc, der Befehlshaber der 2. französischen Panzerdivision, am 25. August 1944 in Paris eintraf, ließ er ...
Pointe du Hoc is a high point between two of the five D-Day landing beaches, Utah and Omaha. It is renowned for the dari...
Omaha is the most renowned of the five landing beaches of D-Day, 6 June 1944. On this 6km-long beach the U.S. troops had...
Geschichte
Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs verbringt die königliche Familie teilweise in London und teilweise in Kanada. Nach der de...
On 6 June 1944, Caen was bombed. 10,000 inhabitants abandoned their homes or left the city, and the Croix-Rouge (Red C...
Right form the beginning on 6 June 1944, the village of Ranville was at the heart of British airborne operations. Sur...
As soon as D-Day was announced, members of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and the Caen Resistance gathered wi...
On 18 July 1944, General Montgomery launched a new offensive: Operation Goodwood. Located south-east of Caen, the aim...
On 7 August 1944, German forces cleared their defences south of Caen to counterattack Mortain. This provided General ...
During the Battle of Caen, eighteen Canadian soldiers, all prisoners of war, were executed by SS soldiers inside the...
Die RAF Dunholme Lodge wurde im Mai 1943 eröffnet und lag westlich des Dorfes Dunholme....
Chambois was the block in the so-called Falaise pocket. The junction in Chambois village, made on 19 August 1944 by A...
At 10:00 on Sunday 3 September 1944, the tanks of Task Force Mills (Combat Command B of the US 3rd AD), passed through t...
Frameries was an important transit point on the long road to Germany. From here, you could descend to the south-east tow...
Denkmal
From 5 to 6 September 1944, the US 9th Infantry Division liberated the town of Hastière, as they pushed through the Ar...
Goegnies-Chaussé, a border village on the road from Bavay to Binche, was where German troops retreated via Bois Bourdon ...
The Cheval Blanc crossroads was a strategic point south of Mons: the crossroads of two essential roads for the belligere...
On the evening of 2 September 1944, the 3rd AD headquarters moved into the Château de Warelles (Warelles Castle)....
The Ciply roadblock was controlled by two Tank Destroyers covering the Rue Brunehault in Mesvin, and two others supporti...
Gabriel Ottelet was an accountant at the Citroën garage on Rue d'Havré in Mons. Resisting forced labour in Germany, by d...
On 2 September 1944 at around 18:15, a column of 3rd AD tanks from Nouvelles entered Mesvin via the Rue du Cimetière (no...
The Combined Operations Memorial at Warsash commemorates the embarkation point for the Commando Units and those of the...